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Data of the Town |
Muel |
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Town |
Muel |
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Municipality |
Muel / Region: Field of Cariñena |
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Province |
Saragossa |
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Community |
Aragon |
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Habt. / Ine 2004 |
1200 |
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Town hall |
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Direction |
Square of Spain, 1 |
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ZIP code |
50450 |
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Phone |
976140001 |
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Fax |
976140404 |
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Office Tourism |
To contact with telf. quoted |
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Official web |
Muel |
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Web of Interest |
Muel Provincial Patronage of Tourism, photos |
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E-mail municipality |
muel@dpz.es |
Placed in the depression of the Ebro, along with the river Huerva, to a 424 m altitude, Muel opens the porch for the field of Cariñena.
It is a question of a producing wines area, under the Denomination of Origin Cariñena, and account with an extensive garden watered by the river Huerva. Nevertheless, the municipality is known worldwide for his ceramics, which origin is located usually in the year 1048.
His city center is picturesque and it lodges the chapel of the Virgin of Source, in which Goya painted a few fresh air of extraordinary invoice that represent the parents of the Church. A good sample is of his Arab past, with sinuous and narrow streets, some blind women. In they that we can contemplate good examples of architecture palatial Aragonese of Renaissance style that, frequently, ceramic ornaments present in his fronts.
Muel was a center potter of the first magnitude and it it keeps on being. reputation has deserved ceramics of Muel. At present Muel to re-arisen again like center ceramist, and today the Muel ceramics enjoys again international reputation
Sights
Castle of the Marquesses of Camarasa
Chapel of the Virgin of the Source
Parish dedicated to St Kitts. (XVIIIth century)
Town planning
School - workshop of Ceramics of Muel. Direction: Workshop - school Ceramics of Muel. Highway N-330, km 468 (50450) Tfno: 976 145 225
Holidays: On February 3 San Blas is celebrated, with a procession in that the saint carries the big traditional roscones. The end of week more next to the Ascension takes place the holiday of Fifth: young boys and girls go he marries for house asking for money with which they will pay the band. Also they cut a black poplar and they it plant along with chapel, although this tradition is getting lost. On July 10 they celebrate the minor holidays of St Kitts. The holidays management in honor to the Virgin of the Source take place 8 of in September
The river Huerva gives a coloring touch to his step along this one beautiful locality, giving place to several cascades along with the municipal park, environment that unites in the same frame nature, history and culture. Muel is composed by the Muel local authorities, Her Station, Big Torrubia, Virgin of the Source, Montesol and Parquemuel (ftes and text to see links)